A Gracefully Degradable Declustered RAID Architecture

  • Authors:
  • Siu-Cheung Chau;Ada Wai-Chee Fu

  • Affiliations:
  • Department of Physics and Computing, Wilfrid Laurier University, Waterloo, Ontario, Canada N2L 3C5;Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shatin, Hong Kong

  • Venue:
  • Cluster Computing
  • Year:
  • 2002

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Abstract

A new layout method Prime-groups is proposed to evenly distribute parity groups for declustered RAID. Prime-groups satisfies most of the layout goals for a good declustered RAID layout. For the goals that are not satisfied, it is near optimal. A new layout goal maximal write and reconstruction parallelism is also proposed. If a layout satisfies the new goal, all the surviving disks can be read in parallel and can be rewritten in parallel during reconstruction and reconfiguration. Prime-groups satisfies the new goal when the write request begins in the first disk of the array. It is also near optimal in term of declustering ratio when ip is a prime. Prime-groups can compliment the layouts proposed by Alvarez et al. [2] for the criteria to obtain a good layout is quite different between Prime-groups and those proposed by Alvarez et al. [2].